Western Liberals seem incapable of learning from the generational repercussions created by ignoring past genocides. Without doubt the IDF can raze every building and kill or maim Gaza’s surviving population but at what cost to Israel and its role as one of the world’s democracies?
It can be argued that Germany is still atoning for its genocidal actions under Nazi rule. Scarcely a week passes when the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides do not reverberate. Russia’s Chechnyan genocide, the erasure of Grozny and the Western failure to act provided the Ukranian template which has ensured international opprobium for its government and many of its citizens.
It seems Israel is willing to remain a pariah state for the forseeable future, its citizens ensured insult and condemnation wherever they travel, its government reviled by international institutions with the US its only supporter. The self-harm caused by the one state that should have understood its genocidal actions is sad beyond comprehension.